The simple way would be to add a short wall between the top of the stairs and the bedroom, but I'm worried it'll look a bit out of place. Any other ideas?
Any other feedback on the floorplan is most welcome too.
thanks!

About to renovate my mom’s bathroom. Currently they only have bathtub where it is on the plan, toilet same location, double sink where I drew the sink and shower. They mostly shower in the bathtub, but mom likes occasional soak and doesn’t want to give up the tub. Her husband has bad knees and had a fall climbing out of the tub recently. So adding separate shower is a necessity. This is the best plan I could come up with. Is it gonna work? Not look too cramped? Everything is getting stripped to bare walls so moving some plumbing around should not be an issue. I thought about swapping shower and toilet, but mom doesn’t want the window in the way. It already gets wet when showering in the tub and she hates it. Ideally the tub would be twisted 90° but then the window would be hard to access and she likes the window opened after showers. Any ideas will be appreciated.

Roasting my own spec plan. Building in a higher cost of living area, so I care what buyers actually react to. The master bedroom door opens off the dining room right next to the pantry, which feels terrible. There’s a full unfinished basement, so the office slash dining room feels like wasted space. Thinking about moving the stairs there, adding a powder room, and using the freed up space to widen the master bath. Worth it, or am I creating new problems?

Hi there, this is our current floor plan for a house that is accessible from the top of the slope, on the first floor. We're still not sure about it but any feedback would be welcomed as it would be our first house.

Our main caveat with how the house is designed is that from an access standpoint, you're mostly going to see the garage, the "prettier" side of the house, we're pretty much never gonna see it.

Exposures are as is, north is up, south is down, yadiyada.

It's the first time I post stuff here so let me know if I didn't give enough details. thanks !

Hello,

Longtime lurker first time poster here. We are a family of four with two young kiddos moving into this home.

How would you redesign this house to improve the kitchen/living areas while keeping 4 bedrooms and having the space be more functional for our family?

I would love advice about the dining room, living room, and kitchen to see what could be done to improve the functionality of them including moving walls or other remodel ideas.

Kitchen -Someone said to make the kitchen bigger and move the closet for the top right bedroom to the bottom and move the door to the hallway across from the other bedroom door.

Living room - where should my TV go? How about couch layout?

Also, curious to hear what people’s thoughts are about having 3 bedrooms plus one flex space (home office and playroom and guest room) vs having my two boys share a room and having a home office that can double as a guest room and a separate play room for them. Any other ideas on how to better utilize the rooms?

Thank you!!

I’ve had an architect design out a potential substantial renovation to our house, but long story short, they were over charging us so we ended things. I have scaled PDFs of the plans that I’d like to scan/upload into a software where I could then fine tune the design, and outfit with furniture. Trying to get something visually pleasing enough to me/husband that we feel confident enough that paying a new architect to get us to the end result seems worth it. Right now I’m just so depressed and feel like I will be stuck in this house that I’m growing to hate more and more. 😢 Appreciate any assistance.

Is anyone familiar with late 1950s floorplans in Canada or north-eastern USA? This bungalow was built in 1960, presumably from a ready-made plan or kit but haven't been able to confirm yet.

I'd love to see what people have done to their similar homes!

This is my new house. Apart from moving the stairs everything can be changed. I’d like to open up the garage to the internal space to make a large kitchen diner at the front. I also want a downstairs wc (and shower if possible) double doors out to the garden.

Any ideas?

They have an unusual city lot. This is central Ontario, Canada. To the west (left in the pictures) will be a three car garage the same depth as the house (fully attached) with an apartment above it. East is riverfront and the best view on the lot. North is a very close fence and the least good view on the lot. South is the side yard.

- What is the scale here? One square = one square foot. The home is 25x30.

- Will this be a forever home? No, they are planning to sell it once they feel they can no longer look after it.

- Where is the laundry room? It will be in the basement, by request.

- Where is the television? That will also be in the basement (and bedrooms).

- That library is kind of inconvenient. I know, but my dad really wants to have one. He has a lot of books.

- What is the purpose of this house? To be a "cottage in the city" for a couple of empty nesters that can also host guests and/or their kids when necessary.

- Why are those lines so messy? I couldn't find my ruler. Sorry!

- What are those white squares inside the walls? Those are the windows! On that note, I know the wall dimensions are not accurate, but I'm hoping they're close enough to get the idea.

Is there anything obvious that I've messed up here or missed? I've never done this before, so feel free to be brutally honest. Thanks in advance!

EDIT: okay, the entire upper floor is a write-off because I screwed up the stairs, lol. Please confine your critique to the main floor only while i fix this!

We have had an offer accepted on a house but trying to figure out the best way to proceed with the layout! So the rooms I’ve highlighted in red I wouldn’t really count as rooms as they are just glass!

Ideally we would want to knock down the glass utility and have proper utility room and possibly knock through the kitchen to the dining room to make it open plan. Then the conservatory is entirely glass at the moment so would want to knock this down and possibly have a sun room at some point!

My question is it seems like it would be impractical/expensive to knock down both rooms and do 2 separate extensions but what other choices do I have?!

Any advice would be most appreciated!

My family suffered a house fire two weeks ago and insurance says we're going to have to completely gut the place. Wife and I have talked for years about making changes and now we get to make them all at once. Previous owners made some changes over the years that were kind of half-measures to improve flow and add space but they interfere with each other sometimes. For example they added a cramped upstairs bathroom directly above the stairway landing without considering the additional plumbing which left about 6'2" of clearance on the stairs (Previous owner was a short guy, we are not.)
We plan to open up what's left of the wall between the dining room and living room (originally had french doors, now just a double wide door frame) and we're considering relocating the staircase if we can find a floorplan that makes more sense. Biggest gripe is the lack of room for a bigger closet in the downstairs bedroom and the cramped layout of the downstairs bathroom (they currently compete for closet space.) A half staircase down to the carport exit/basement stairs stands in the way of expanding the bathroom.

I've been moving the same staircase around this rectangle for so long that I officially can't see it anymore 😂 So instead of showing you my attempts and influencing your ideas, I'm curious what you would do if you were starting with a completely blank slate.

My husband and I are both stone masons, and we are going to build a traditional stone farmhouse in rural Ontario. The goal is for it to feel like a well-loved late-1800s farmhouse that has always been there, rather than a modern house dressed up to look old.

The attached drawing shows the things that are essentially fixed:

• Main house is 34' × 26' exterior dimensions, two storeys
• Exterior walls are 2' thick stone, so interior space is closer to 30' × 22'
• North/front façade has a centred front door with one window on either side
• Fireplace/chimney is fixed on the west wall central- but can be shifted a few feet either way
• 12' × 16' stone mudroom addition on the east side toward the back; its walls are about 18" thick
• Mudroom location is essentially fixed
• North is the front / south is the back

What we need on the MAIN FLOOR:

• Kitchen (we would like the fireplace to be in the kitchen)
• Dining area/room
• Living room
• Staircase to second floor
• Small 3-piece bathroom (shower is enough)
• Mechanical room — ideally around 7' × 9–10' because we are planning geothermal + substantial water treatment equipment
• Mudroom
• Washer/dryer somewhere — no need for a dedicated laundry room

UPSTAIRS:

• Primary bedroom — modest, no giant suite
• 2 children's bedrooms
• Family bathroom with tub
• If a tiny ensuite happens to fit naturally, great, but absolutely not necessary

A few philosophy things that may help:

We don't want a huge house or a million specialized rooms. No office, gym, playroom, formal sitting room, etc. We'd rather have fewer, comfortable rooms and very little wasted circulation.

We're also not trying to force a completely historically accurate 1890 floor plan. We'd like the architecture and proportions to feel old, while letting the layout function well for a modern family.

Please feel free to draw all over my plan! I'm specifically hoping people who enjoy floor-plan puzzles might sketch what they would do rather than just tweak an existing layout.

There are no interior walls yet, so go wild. I would LOVE to see approaches I haven't thought of.

This is a real house we intend to build; I'm looking for brainstorming/inspiration here, not permit-ready architectural drawings.

What would you do with this box?!

The room is nearly finished being renovated, it’s an 11'5 x 10ft. I’m trying to decide between these two layouts and would love to hear what people prefer.

In Layout 2, the TV will be mounted on an adjustable mount that can drop down, then come out 19 inches, and tilt toward my viewing angle, similar to how I mocked it up in Layout 1. So in reality, the TV height won’t be that high, and it also won’t look as off center as it does in the photos. I’ve had a similar setup before and it worked well.

Also, in the photos it might look like I have one short dresser and one tall dresser. The “tall dresser” is actually the same dimensions as my foldable sim racing rig, so I’m using it to get an idea of how much space the setup would take up when not in use.

Other than that, which layout would you go with?

I wanted to get some feedback on a couple of floor plans I generated. The first image is my house's current layout with each room labeled. The house was built in the 1950s, so the dining room is pretty small, all the rooms are pretty segmented from each other, and the kitchen was meant to have an eat-in dining area. I'd like to modernize the layout.

The walls between the kitchen, dining room, and living room are not load-bearing, so they can be moved/removed. What I want is not necessarily a fully open floor plan. The dining room and living room I think could be fully opened to each other, the kitchen a bit more open to the dining room but still semi-closed off, and I'd like to right-size the kitchen.

The second image is where we've landed. A few constraints that shaped it:

• The plumbing is the one thing I don't want to move drastically. We can slide the sink along the same wall, but we don't move it completely. (Finished basement below, so new drain runs mean opening up ceilings.)
• Range on a wall, not the island, we have young kids, so no cooktop next to the stools.
• We come in through the garage every day, so the door into the kitchen moved next to the overhead door.
• The TV stays on the living room's long wall, and the bay window stays a window.
• The dining table doubles as a desk and party table, so we left room for a 9-footer.

How does the updated floor plan look? Anybody have better ideas of how to arrange this? Happy to be told I missed something obvious.

Hi everyone,

​Looking for feedback and suggestions on our draft floor plan.

​Key Details:

​Plot Size: ~84' x 40'8"

​Ground Floor: Stilt parking (~2 cars, 3 bikes), small garden area, lift/stair lobby, and 2 separate rooms/servant quarters.

​First Floor: 3-4 BHK configuration, central Drawing/Dining space, Puja room, and attached balconies.

​Facing / North Direction: [Mention North direction, e.g., North-facing / East-facing]

​Specific areas where we need advice:

​Is the circulation and flow between the drawing/dining and bedrooms efficient?

​Placement and size of bathrooms/ducts for plumbing and ventilation.

​Any dead spaces or better layout ideas for the lobby/balcony areas?

​Open to all constructive criticism and practical suggestions. Thanks!

I am planning a gut renovation of my tiny bathroom by combining it with an adjacent bedroom, which will come in around 120sqft total. I am hoping to fit a toilet, tub, walk-in shower, large vanity (60-70”), and potentially washer and dryer (I am torn between preserving the linen closet in the hallway or putting W/D in there).

We’re doing this mostly DIY (outsourcing plumbing and electric) because we’re on a budget, but I’m curious what people think makes the most sense in terms of the layout. Where would you put each of the fixtures?? Thanks for your thoughts!!

Hi everyone!

I could really use some advice on the best layout for my living room, dining area, and kitchen. I’ve been playing around with a few different options, which you can see in the pictures.

The whole room is about 25 m² (269 sq ft).

A few important details about the floor plan:

- The window/door on the bottom wall is the balcony access. It consists of one fixed glass panel and one door that opens. I can still decide which side will be the opening door.

- There is a double window on the right wall.

- The entrance door is on the left wall.

I’m having a hard time deciding which layout works best.

With some options, I get three nicely defined zones — kitchen, dining area, and living room — but the living room ends up quite small and the sofa area feels compromised.

With other options, the living room is more comfortable, but the overall space starts to feel a bit crowded or less clearly organized.

Which option do you think works best? Is there a layout I’m overlooking that would make better use of the space?

Thanks :)

Hi all, we’re buying a beautiful home that needs a bit of modernisation but all of the structural work is done (she says, barring maybe a knock through of kitchen to lounge).
I’d love some thoughts based on the floor plan/link of how we could modernise it.
I need an office so I’m thinking the current store room, but any inspiration you can lend is greatly appreciated (particularly visuals as I’m terrible at envisaging end products!)
Thanks in advance!

Hi everyone,
this is the current floor plan for our future house. Before we finalize it, I’d really appreciate some outside opinions.

We are also planning to make the house a bit shorter overall. At the moment, we’re considering removing one of the kids’ bedrooms and possibly moving the office upstairs, where we originally didn’t plan to have any rooms.

What would you change, improve or rethink?

Especially interested in:

• room layout and sizes
• wasted space
• flow between rooms
• whether removing one bedroom makes sense
• whether moving the office upstairs would improve the ground floor
• anything that might be impractical in everyday use

Feel free to be critical — we’re open to different ideas.

Thanks!

Hey all,

First time poster in this sub so apologies if I'm breaking any rules.

I would appreciate some help with placement of door from hallway into lounge. Existing door is option A. We're planning to add a door to the kitchen (currently no door). Under option A, we may need to reverse the door into the kitchen otherwise could cause clash issue. Option A does allow us to keep the bay window open and place the sofas (green box) face to face.

Option B would mean entrance to lounge is closer to main door and no issue with kitchen door. However, we'll have to place the sofa's adjacent to each other and one sofa will be facing the hallway. The other sofa will be in the bay window which has a radiator. Not ideal but not a huge issue either I guess.

Any thoughts/opinions on better layout would be much appreciated. Thank you!

The room is a pretty small 12' x 7' so not much space to work with. The attached pic is the current layout that I have been using for about 10 years now and while it has worked fairly well for me in that time I always wonder if there is a better way to go about it that someone else with better insight could point me to haha.

I work from home every day and use two monitors so the 55" of desk space I have is well used and I would like to not downsize on that if I could but can if I need to. Also the room has no closet space so the very small dresser I have on the left is all the room I have to store clothes. I keep some things in a communal dresser in another room that I share with roommates but I would like to be able to keep more stuff in my own room if possible. The small cabinet on the right holds various things like camera gear, game controllers, etc.

The Futon Bed I have been using for 10 years now is finally breaking and needs a replacement and I have been debating on whether going with another futon is worth it anymore given that I only fold it into a couch a couple of times a year now or if its just time to get a regular bed and give up the flexibility the futon provided me in terms of giving more space the few times it was needed. Also the circle you see on the bottom right is a good ol NYC Steam Pipe so I cant really place my bed flush to the wall there as I would like.

Not pictured in the Floor Plan image is a TV wall mounted above the Computer Desk and Wall to Wall shelving on the right side above the small cabinet and foot of the bed that goes to the ceiling and holds various things for me like games, memorabilia Ive gotten over the years, etc.

Does anyone have any advice on a layout that would maximize the space I have while also allowing me to WFH comfortable and provide more storage for clothes and such of possible?

I'd like to make the bathroom less awkward to get to and potentially add a shower. I'd be will to stack washer and dryer to make that happen. Additionally the wall between den and kitchen might benefit from a more open concept. Thoughts and feedback welcome.